The SCIIS lab is furnished with state-of-the-art facilities (i.e., equipment, machines, and tools) that are tailored towards service industries such as: civil engineering, infrastructure, construction, transportation, architecture, urban environments, among others. The SCIIS lab focuses on sustainability, resiliency, and environmental impacts of infrastructure systems; infrastructure asset management of above and underground structures (bridges, dams, transportation, utilities, tunnels, energy, water); computational methods and applied machine learning; and modeling, simulation, and optimization of infrastructure assets, construction operations, and inter-and intra-community interactions. The research activities at the SCIIS lab include the following clusters:
The research performed in the SCIIS lab follows a collaborative and multidisciplinary philosophy by seamlessly integrating the four main resources needed for building better projects and infrastructure systems: people, process, technology, and data. The lab conducts applied, translational, and fundamental research in a broad range of topics in the construction and critical infrastructure area. The lab explores novel concepts, ideas, and technologies related to systems of the future pervasive infrastructure, and it designs scalable solutions for next-generation projects and infrastructure assets. The lab is devoted to address problems in construction and civil infrastructure using the most recent, powerful, and novel disruptions available in the industry. The lab helps researchers gain keen insight into complex challenges by equipping them with tools and resources to discover the unexpected and to visualize the expected. The research at the SCIIS lab aims to develop and maintain a mechanism to advance knowledge about technologies to further advance scholarly activity and improve infrastructure resources. The research activities at the SCIIS lab focus on providing an interdisciplinary framework and environment for students, faculty, and staff to collaborate on producing new and impactful educational, scholarly, and outreach experiences for continued success.
The performed research in the SCIIS lab advances the development and application of smart and intelligent technologies to inventory, manage, and monitor the built environment and its resources through research, teaching, and outreach. The lab is dedicated to the development of automation solution, modeling methods, smart algorithms, and computational tools that can be implemented in practice to infrastructure facilities and construction projects with the aim of providing safe, sustainable, resilient, and productive systems and environment. The lab contributes to the enabling technology available for designing, testing, operating, and managing high-performance and complex infrastructure systems. The lab supports academic programs and project sponsors with ongoing research and professional services that advance understanding and knowledge of construction and project performance through improved system monitoring and management by means of research and development, technology implementation, training, and education. The research and development activities in the SCIIS lab are directed towards having a bridge between the construction and infrastructure community, the information technology (IT) community, and other fields.
The research focus of the SCIIS lab is directed to explore connections between different stakeholders: community, industry, and academic partners that will lead to the creation of novel experiences that promote the social good. The SCIIS lab is also engaged in fundamental research while catering to needs spanning from educational duties for graduate and undergraduate students as well as to serve the industrial and cultural sectors locally (i.e., in New Jersey), nationally, internationally, and globally. While the lab is actively involved with instruction and graduate education, it is also commited to delivering high-quality publications. The lab also provides the adaptive space for communities to explore and experiment with creative ways to learn from the emerging future. The goal is to provide a quality of service to sponsors, students, and faculty that result in the contribution of knowledge formation, technology advancement, and economic development by offering world-class user service, fostering student-led innovation and research, and enhancing operational efficiency through the effective use of information technologies.